u/Glad-Junket2540

Hey, I (25M) live in suburban so there arent many places to do activities such as walking, playing tennis etc etc. So 1-2 weeks ago after I was done with tennis I was playing with my phone and there was a man with green car that parked next to me. I didnt give a fuck totally thay day about him but he was keep turning his car going a little bit foward etc etc. So afterr I was done playing and getting out of park he followed me for a while. Then I saw a pedestrian and yielded. He stopped with me and after pedestrian walked he directly pull left and disappeared. I didnt think about that at that day

but hey today, same guy appeared in the same park. I was sitting outside my car at a separete private bank in a and he came close had sunglasses etc. he was a white middle old male and looked at me, I realized something was wrong but and looked him in a way that showed i didnt fear him. then he was taken aback and did some weird things. walked a little bt then stared back at me. stoppign randomly and staring back etc etc. then I went back to my car and this mf went back to his car as well. I was still surprised and couldnt realize whats going on so went back to same location again and this mf went back somewhere close to me for staring at me. when i realized him staring me he was staying somewhere middle at park and staring me still. i was totally afraid and went back to my car.

directly started the car and there was another park which is much more crowded. I went there to turn back to normal. 10-15 minutes later this mf appeared at this park with his green old Volvo, parked somewhere that he could stare me. He parked somewhere between 2 people and after parking he was staring me. people near him left the park and he became so obvious. ı called a friend of mine and told what happened and he didnt believe me. ı showed this mf staring at me inside his car and started my car again and this mf started following me again. so there were red lights. I gave left signal, where police station is , and if you go straight there is the first park that i ve mentioned. this mf came directly next to my car but didnt come with me to police station way. But he was doing weird things with his hands so my friend startted to record him during our ft.I was like very angry afterwards because i simply didnt record this mf and let him fear me.

I DIRECTLY WENT BACK TO FIRST PARK, MF WAS THERE. PARKED RIGHT BACK TO HIS CAR AND STARTED RECORDING HIM DOING CREEPY STUFF.

he started his car and at parking lot of this park, he changed his location where we could see each other but he has that tinted glasses so i cant really see him. so i started my car to exit the park and mf did the same as i expected. At the exit i stopped like 5-6 mins blocking the way so this mf could get out of his car and interact me . I am basically 6’3 mascular young man and he is a short old creep. after 5 minutes he went back and parked his car in the park. I recorded all of this stuff. So if i see him again.i will call the police this time since i have video proof of him being a creep on me. what can i do did you have something similar?

I’ve recently been learning about Gnosticism and I think it shares striking elements with Alevism, a heterodox tradition rooted in Anatolia.

A few parallels that stand out:

Inner knowledge as the path to the divine — what Gnostics call gnosis, Alevis call marifet/irfan. Salvation comes through direct, experiential knowledge rather than law or external ritual.

Esoteric vs. exoteric truth — the zahir/batin distinction in Alevism mirrors the Gnostic idea that scripture has hidden meanings only accessible to initiates.

The divine spark in the human — “He who knows himself knows God” appears in both. Alevism’s Enel-Hak (“I am the Truth/God”) and the concept of insan-ı kâmil (perfect human) feel very close to the Gnostic divine spark.

Initiatory transmission — master-to-disciple (mürşit-talip) lineage, secrecy, gradual unveiling of truth.

Anti-clerical, anti-legalistic — both sit uneasily with their parent religion’s orthodoxy.

The afterlife parallel is what really got me. Neither tradition has a classical heaven/hell reward-punishment scheme:

In Gnosticism, the soul is a fallen spark from the Pleroma. After death, those with gnosis ascend back through the planetary spheres to the light realm — returning to the source. Those without it reincarnate until they awaken. Hell isn’t a place you go to; this material world is the prison.

Alevism has a remarkably similar concept called devriye — the soul cycles through forms (mineral → plant → animal → human → perfect human) until it reunites with Hakk (the Truth/God).

In both, the axis is knowledge vs. ignorance, not reward vs. punishment. Awakening to your true nature is salvation itself.

There’s also a possible historical link: Anatolia was a hotbed of Gnostic movements (Marcionites, Valentinians, Paulicians, Bogomils) for centuries before Alevism crystallized there.

One key difference though: classical Gnosticism is dualist (matter = prison, world = evil), while Alevism leans pantheist/monist — the world is where the divine manifests, not where it’s trapped.

Curious what people here think — is this a real historical lineage, or just convergent mysticism arising from similar contemplative paths?